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@rileyforsythe.bsky.social

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WOTCHER. I am bec/riley, a voracious reader, persistent writer, and general loudmouth queer trade union member living in South London (she/they)

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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 28d

Friends, we are running a winter coats and trainers donation drive. We are seeing lots of new arrivals wearing flip flops/t-shirts & shorts, who are in need of warm clothing. CLEAN and GOOD condition items only please. Drop off at the Lambeth Civic Centre, or one of Active Lambeth leisure centres.

Winter coat & trainers appeal: please help families in need by donating winter coats & trainers - CLEAN AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITION - men’s coats urgently needed - appeal running from 15 September to 17 November - drop off items at Active Lambeth gyms and at the Lambeth Civic Centre

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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 21h

One of these pervy fuckers was just spying on me and when I clocked him, flew off to join his creepy mates. How I loathe them.

Three parakeets on a tree, the odious, sqwaking bellends.

bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 23h

Congratulations!!!! And well deserved 🤩

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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 1d

I’m rewatching The League of Gentlemen, mainly to prove to myself that Reece Shearsmith has indeed aged.

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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 1d

I must confess I dunked hard on said uniform, but prayed for its return when faced with his final episode ‘fit: the striped longsleeved shirt paired with short-shorts. Mine eyes!

bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 3d

Good luck dude, what a bunch of pricks,eh?

a man is pointing at a bulletin board with evidence on it while a woman looks on .

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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 3d

I was sad after holiday so I went on a book buying spree! 2025 Forward Prize bundle, Pat Barker’s women of Troy trilogy & Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey so I can join in the Instant Classics podcast book club :)

A stack of paperback books, from top to bottom:
The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker
The Women of Troy - Pat Barker
The Voyage Home - Pat Barker
Heirloom - Catherine Esther-Cowie
Chaotic Good - Isabelle Baafi
Goonie - Michael Mullen
I Sugar the Bones by Juana Adcock
Southernmost: Sonnets - Leo Boix
Altar - Desree
The Island in the Sound - Niall Campbell
Wellwater - Karen Solie
Theophanies - Sarah Ghazal Ali
Avidya - Vidyan Ravinthiran
The Odyssey - Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 3d

never a more apt use of that gif :)

bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 3d

I need to publicly and fulsomely thank you for your correct stance on Withnail & I, which *isn’t* funny but *is* bad and wrong.

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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 3d

So was it one of those merely decorative car parks that definitely exist for consumption of space only and not for parking vehicles?

bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 3d

I say yes but also your labour is worth money and should not be free. And I would be first to commission a portrait of Nina & Simone <3

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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 4d

I found a bunch of Kitty…Vismund Kitty’s toys and I’m chuffed that Simone also loves one of his favourites, a wooden spinning top I got in an Xmas cracker. She even engages with it in the same way he did: tackling it from all angles, picking it up in her mouth to sprint off & kill.😻